Barb. Barbour's Bruce. --Chauc. Chaucer. --Doug. Gawin Douglas's Transl.
of the Æneid. --Ellis, M. R. Ellis's Specimens of Metrical Romances.
--Gl. Glossary. --Jam. Jamieson's Dictionary. --La[gh]am. La[gh]amon's
Transl. of Wace (ed. Madden). --Lynds. Sir D. Lyndsay's Works. --N.E.
Northern English. --Percy, A. R. Percy's Reliques of Ancient English
Poetry. --P. Plowm. Piers Plowman. --R. Br. Robert of Brunne. --R. Gl.
Robert of Gloucester, ed. Hearne (2nd ed. 1810). --Rits. A. S. Ritson's
Ancient Songs. --Rits. M. R. Ritson's Metrical Romances. --Sc. Scotch,
Scotland. --Sir Tr. Sir Tristrem. --Wall. Wallace. --Web. Weber's
Metrical Romances. --Wilb. Wilbraham's Cheshire Glossary. --Wynt.
Wyntoun's Chronicle. --B. Lat. Barbarous Latin. --Belg. Belgic. --Fr.
French. --Isl. Islandic. --Lat. Latin. --S. Saxon. --Sibb. Sibbald's
Chronicle of Scottish Poetry. --Su. G. Suio-Gothic. --Teut. Teutonic.
--_q.v._ Quod vide. --The Romances separately cited are sufficiently
indicated by the Titles. The numbers refer to the line of the Poem.
It may be useful to add that the names of the Romances edited by Ritson
are-- vol. i. Ywaine and Gawin; Launfal. --vol. ii. Lybeaus Disconus;
King Horn; King of Tars; Emare; Sir Orpheo; Chronicle of England. --vol.
iii. Le bone Florence; Erle of Tolous; Squyr of Lowe Degre; Knight of
Curtesy. Those edited by Weber are-- vol. i. Kyng Alisaunder; Sir
Cleges; Lai-le-freine. --vol. ii. Richard C[oe]ur de Lion; Ipomydon;
Amis and Amiloun. --vol. iii. Seuyn Sages; Octouian; Sir Amadas; Hunting
of the Hare. Beowulf and the Codex Exoniensis are quoted from Thorpe's
editions.
A, 610, 936. Apparently an error of the scribe for _Al_, but perhaps
written as pronounced. N.E. and Sc. _aw_. V. Jam.
A before a _noun_ is commonly a corruption of the S. _on_, as proved
clearly by the examples in Tyrwhitt's Gl., Jam., and Gl. Lynds. _Adoun_,
q.v. is an exception. _A-two_, 1413, 2643. _See_ On.
Aboven, _prep._ S. above, 1700.
Abouten, _prep._ S. [_on-bútan_] about, 521, 670, 1010, &c. _Abuten_,
2429.
Adoun, _adv._ S. down, 567. _Adune_, 2735. _Doun_, 901, 925, &c. _Dun_,
888, 927. _Dune_, 1815, 2656. A.S. _of-dúne_.
Adrad, _part. pa._ S. afraid, 278, 1048, 1163, 1682, 2304. _Adradde_,
1787. _Adred_, 1258. _Odrat_, 1153. Sir Tr. p. 174; K. Horn, 124. _See_
Dred.
Agen, _prep._ S. [_on-gean_] against, 1792. _Ageyn_, 493, 569, 2024, &c.
_Ageynes_, 2153, 2270, &c. _Ayen_, 489, 1210, 2799. _Yen_, 2271.
_Ageyn_, toward, 451, 1696, 1947; opposite to, 1809; upon, on, 1828.
_Ayen_, towards, 1207. _Ageyn him go_, 934, opposite him, so as to bear
an equal weight. _Ageyn hire_, 1106, at her approach. _Ageyn þe lith_,
2141, opposed to the light, on which the light shines. V. R. Gl.,
R. Br., Chauc. &c.
Ageyn, _adv._ S. again, 2426.
Al, _adv._ S. wholly, entirely, 34, 70, 139, 203, &c.
Al, _adj._ S. all, 203, 264, &c.; every one, 104; every part, 224;
_plu._ alle, 2, 150, &c.
Albidene, _adv._ _See_ Bidene.
Als, Also, Also, _conj._ S. [_eal-swá_] as, like, so, 306, 319, &c.
_Als_, 1912, as if. _Al so foles_, like fools, 2100. _Als_ is merely the
abbreviation of _Al so_; and the modern as is again shortened from
_als_. In La[gh]amon it is often written _alse_, as in l. 4953.
And he hæfde a swithe god wif
& he heo leouede _alse_ his lif.
Cf. Havelok, l. 1663. _Als_ and _Also_ are used indifferently, and
universally by the old English and Scotch poets.
Alþer-beste, _adj._ S. best of all, 182, 720, 1040, 1197, 2415.
_Alþer-lest_, _Alþer-leste_, 1978, 2666, least of all. It is the gen.
c. pl. of _Alle_, joined to an adj. in the superl. degree, and is
extensively employed. _Alre-leofust_, _Alre-heudest_, _Alre-kenest_,
La[gh]amon, _Althe-werste_, K. Horn, MS. _Alder-best_, _Alder-most_,
R. Br. _Alther-best_, _Alther-formest_, &c. Web. _Alther-furste_,
_Alther-next_, _Alther-last_, Rits. M. R. _Alder-first_, _Alder-last_,
_Alder-levest_, Chauc. _Alder-liefest_, Shakesp.
Amideward, _prep._ S. in the midst, 872. _Amiddewart_, K. Horn, 556.
_Amydward_, K. Alisaund. 690. _A mydward_, Ly Beaus Desc. 852.
_Amydwart_, Doug. Virg. 137, 35.
An. _conj._ S. and, 29, 359, &c. So used by La[gh]amon, and still in
Somersetsh. V. Jennings. _Ant_, 36, 557, K. Horn, 9, &c.
And, _conj._ if, 2862.
Andelong, _adv._ S. lengthways, i.e. from the head to the tail, 2822.
Ovyrtwart and _endelang_
With strenges of wyr the stones hang. --_R. C[oe]ur de Lion_, 2649.
Chauc. _endelong_, C. T. 1993.
Anilepi, _adj._ S. [_ánlepig_] one, a single, 2107. _Onlepi_, 1094. In
the very curious collection of poems in MS. Digb. 86 (written in the
Lincolnshire dialect, temp. Edw. I.) we meet with this somewhat rare
word:
A! quod the vox, ich wille the telle,
_On alpi_ word ich lie nelle.
_Of the vox and of the wolf_ (Rel. Ant. ii. 275).
It occurs also in the Ormulum.
Anoþer, _adj._ S. _Al another_, 1395, in a different way, on another
project.
Ah al hit iwruth _on other_
Sone ther after.
_La[gh]amon_, l. 21005.
Ac Florice thought _al another_.
_Flor. and Blaunchefl._ ap. Ellis, M. R. V. 3, p. 125, ed. 1803.
(Cf. Horn, ed. Lumby, p. 52, l. 32.)
Anuye, _v._ Fr. to trouble, weary, 1735; R. Gl., K. Alisaund. 876;
Chauc. Melibeus. _Noye_, Lynds. Gl. q.v.
Are, _adj._ S. former, 27. Cf. are, _adv._, Sir Tr. p. 32; Rits. M. R.,
Web., R. Gl., R. Br., Minot. p. 31. _Air_, _Ayr_, Sc. V. Jam. _See_ Er,
Or.
Aren, _1 and 3 p. pl._ S. are, 619, 1321, &c. _Arn_, Chauc.
Arke, _n._ S. Lat. a chest _or_ coffer, 2018. R. Br., Jam.
Armes, _n. pl._ Lat. arms, armor, 2605, 2613, 2925.
Arum for Arm, 1982, 2408.